6 ■ STORIES OF THE SECRET SERVICE DY — Capt. Patrick D. Tyrrell f~~~ *—— —^ STfJ RY No. 1 TI I 1& LI !_»'P"I TOMB ROBBERS Being an Account of the Attempted Desecration of the Grave of the Martyr President at Springfield in 1876. and the Capture and Conviction of a Gang of Counterfeiters That Preceded It. By CAPTAIN PATRICK D. TYRRELL I J [Copyright, 1905, by Marlon G. Scheitlln.] PART II. —Continued. In its details the plot was carefully worked out. So far had Swegles wormed himself into the confidence of the conspirators that on the night of the first ol November they met in his room to complete the details of the plot. Five days later I learned that Tuesday, November 7, had been chosen as the night to commit the crime, this date being chosen on account of its being presidential election day, on the night of which, the criminals judged, the excitement incident to the receiv ing of the returns would serve to shield them from any attention they might attract under ordinary circum stances. Ilughes, Mullen ana Swegles were to open the tomb, extract the cas ket and load it into the waiting wag on. Swegles' part of the preliminaries was to secure the wagon and driver, which he assured his coconspirators had been done, and after the work at the tomb had been done he was to ac company the contractor furnishing the conveyance into Indiana. It had also been decided that the trio should go to Springfield on the night of Novem ber tj, in order to be able to make such preliminary surveys and arrangements as might be found necessary. On the theory that, with the infor mation in hand, there could be no diffi culty in preventing the conspirators from carrying out their plan, there had been no dissent among the govern ment employes as to the wisdom of going further and permitting the tomb robho— to progress far enough wit'* .l.cir work to enable the law offi cers to capture the criminals red handed. Robert T. Lincoln, son of the martyr president, and Leonard Swett had been kept fully informed of the conception and development of the plot and had agreed that the capture of the counterfeiters in their initial grave-robbing effort would be prefer able merely to frightening them out of the attempt, a course that had been pursued in the instance of the plot of eight months before. At a conference at which Mr. Lincoln was present the services of Elmer Washburn, who had in the meantime been superseded in the chiefship of the secret service; John McDonald, who had assisted in the capture of Hen Boyd, and John McGinn and George Hay, Pinkerton men, were provided for to assist in the capture of the vandals. Owing to the importance of the case Allan Pinker ton had assigned his best two men. Mr. Lincoln protested against the plot being allowed to proceed to the point where profane hands might actually l;e laid on his father's coffin, but Mr. Swett insisted that an overt act must be committed by them before the vandals could be successfully pros ecuted. and our plans were not changed. This conference was held in the aft ernoon. and at. nine o'clock the evening of the same day Mullen, Hughes and Swegles swung aboard the front plat form of the front coach of the Alton train just as it moved out of the Chi cago station. McGinn, Hay and I boarded the last sleeper of the same train, alter having satisfied ourselves by careful shadowing that the profes sional counterfeiters, now amateur tomb robbers, were aboard. Washburn and McDonald were togo to Spring field on the next train and arrive there a.. four o'clock on the afternoon of the day set for the robbery. We arrived at Springfn Id two hours late ami reg istered at the St. Nicholas hotel under as-umed names, We found that .Mul len and Hugh's, also under false names, had registered at. the St. <T.arl- hotel, a small house not far lr>m the St. Nicholas. They had re tired to gain i ' before < ntering ou their bold work and had left orders to I ailed at ten o'clock in the morn ing Au hour before that time 1 received a call by appointment from John T Ktuart. of i ho Lincoln guard of honor. In whose office Abraham Lincoln had rei! law. We | t - •!< ! at once to the Llirolu ruonumiij'., iu Oak ltids«i cemetery, where I was Introduced to John C. Power, custodian 01 tlie Lin-1 coin tomb, with whom I niade a thor-; ough examination ann mental survey i of the monument structure and stir- j rounding grounds, A spot was select- j ed at which one of the detectives could j he stationed from which he could hear the robbers at work on the sarco- i phagtts. Custodian Power was told: that during the afternoon two men whose descriptions were given would appear at the tomb anil that any ques tions asked by them should be an swered with the customary courtesy accorded visitors to the monument. It was about three o'clock in the afternoon that Hughes and Swegles appeared, paid the usual fee and en tered false names in the visitors' reg ister. Hughes asked many questions, which were fully and truthfully an swered. Mullen, as we found later, j had remained in the city'to collect | such tools as he thought necessary for forcing open the tomb and marble j sarcophagus. At five o'clock Detec j live Hay was dispatched to the cerae ! tery to inform Custodian Power that \ • the other officers were coming, and I two hours later, after a conference in I the hotel where the work of each man j had been assigned to him, we reached the monument. The day had been dark, and at six o'clock all daylight had faded from the cemetery. Inside Memorial hall the darkness was intense. Hy those |of my readers who have seen the i burial place of Abraham Lincoln it ! will be remembered that Memorial | hall is at the south end of the monu | mint structure and the catacomb con | taining the body at the north end, 175 feet away. I had selected Memorial ! hall as the best hiding place for our I men, Swegles having promised to in | fom us in our hiding place when the i right moment was at hand for us to ! appear at the door of the catacomb and thereby entrap the ghouls at their work. Swegles was to work with Hughes and Mullen until the sarco phagus was opened and the casket ready to be loaded into the wagon. Then he was togo for the conveyance, which was supposed to bo hidden near by. While on this mission he was 13 make his way around the base of the T] IK KI.AIMC <IK A lU'LL'S-KVE LA NTEHN SHOT THROUGH THE BARS. I hill, come to the door of Memorial ■ hall and give the signal that the time j for action had come. That there might be no mistake in the darkness a countersign, the word "Wash," had been agreed upon. We had been concealed in Memorial hall in almost breathless quiet for j about two hours, when suddenly the j Hare of a bulls-eye lantern was shot j through the bars of the iron door J leading into the ball, and we knew that the conspiracy was rapidly being put into actual execution. From their hurried examination of the hall by i the aid of the lantern the ghouls evi- | dently satisfied themselves that no one 1 was inside. At any rate, they depart ed in a moment and made around the ; base of the monument to the north end, where lay the body they were running such desperate risks to se cure. We know that 'Jie next few minutes would be fraught with events that might mean death to any of 113. ! I now had more reason than ever bo fore to believe in the truthfulness of Swegles and that he would keep his promise to signal us when the right time arrived. So we waited for this signal, and at last it came. If this story were a fancy of my j brain instead of a narrative of fact 3 the current of it would here ta,.e a sud den turn from the lines 1 am com pelled to pen. For more than a year I had plotted to outwit the shrewd and desperate criminals with whom we were dealing and, up to this point, had been successful*. As soon as Swegles had given the signal wo moved cautiously out of Memorial hall and I ordered the others to fol low me. At the giving of this order every man drew bis revolver, to be prepared tor the fight that we all believe:! In evitable. In doing so Detective Hay, of the Pinkerton force, accidentally discharged a perm sion cap in the old style Colt's revolver he carried. As j tin- detonation was not loud i paid i little attention to It, and ran swiftly atound to the door of the catacomb, with the others behind me. The top'" containing the lock of the Iron door had been sawed and filed off, and tf>.9 door stooil a few Inches ajar. I called on whomsoever was within to surrender. There was no response. ?. called again and then Union* J. Not CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, igc6. evi-n tlio round of brwithlrs was audible. I then rtriick a match. The tools used by the gh.viU "ay scattered over the tloor and the rti»'«>ohagu9 was battered to pieces ia such u way as to allow the casUnt to be moved lcngthwi-o toward the door. The vi»n fials had fled. There is but one word that ade -1 quately describes tlio sensation that I came over me, and that is "cheap ness." After weeks of careful plan ning to catch red-handed the men whose criminality had taken on so de praved a turn that they would resort to the theft of the body of the most beloved American, we found that they had outwitted us. As quickly as I could recover my presence of mind alter the shock of surprise over find ing the catacomb empty except for the desecrated sarcophagus, 1 ordered my assistants to separate and scour th» shrubbery surrounding for the ghouls Going back, it occurred to me thai the ghouls might have sought conceal ment on the upper parts of the struc ture. In the shadow I saw the figures of two men whom I could not discern clearly enough to identify them. It never occurred to me that they might lie other than Hughes and Mullen, and I called out for the men below to como up. I fired at them, and they returned the fire, running at the same time to the northeast corner of the terrace. 1 lired again and again. The shot was answered, the bullets whistling past my head. Then one of the men shout ed: "Tyrrell, is that you?" I made no answer, believing thai one of the men was Hughes and know ing he would recognize my voice. Again the excited question was asked, and I still kept silent. It took but a moment, however, for the pursued men to make themselves known as .McGinn and Hay, the Pinkerton men, who had mounted the steps in the hope of find ing the ghouls hidden there. Thus for a time was the most se rious and dastardly plot ever devised turned into a farce. Our prey had es caped, and in order to justify ourselves against the ridicule that would be heaped on us when the events of tb.e night became known I immediately took up the trail of Hughes and Mul- ; len. After finding they had break | fasted at a farmhouse about sevou 1 miles from Springfield the next morn ing, they were again lost to us. There could now be no rest till the men were run to earth. Ten days later they were located in the saloon at 291 West Madison otreet and arrested by D»- tectives Simmons, of the Chicago city l force; McGinn, of the Pinkertons, and 1 Elmer Washburn and myself, of the secret service. They were taken to Sprkigfield, in dicted and tried on Ihe charges of rob bery and larceny, there being no spe i cific statute at that rrne against grave ; robbing, and sent to the penitent iarj : for a year. Their coonsel, in the triar of the case at Springfield, raised t'lf j cry that the secret service had "put uj a job" on his clients in order to gel them out of the way for counterfeiting operations, but the absurdity of thai defense was too apparent to save tliE counterfeiters from prison. This is the true record of a plot thai failed, It is not known to this daj why Hughes and Mullen left the tornt after Swegles went after the team h< was supposed to have, but which, ii fact, did not exist. One theory is thai ; they heard the detonation of Hay'i revolver and fled. is thai they left the tomb to i„'eet Sweglet and the driver, aiuj insteAl saw th« I officers rushing on them. Whatevei Imay be the correct theory, their es | cape from Ihe tomb before we reached |it wa merely one of the innumerable i breaks in th>> plans of all detectives— I except in story books. Story No. 2 Will Be "The Bothaniley Murder Mystery." Supply and Demand. "I tell you." said the passenger witi 1 the skull (ap.' ihere i« ronietiiins wrong with a couiHr.v where a prizefighter cau ni..Ue more money in t no night than a collet i- proi'c. -<»r cr.c make in live ' years!" 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